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Photo Archivist position- Peabody Musuem, Harvard University
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information in the posting below.
Photographic Archivist.
The Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology seeks an experienced
professional to plan and implement a program which organizes, documents,
preserves, and provides access to the museum's extensive photographic
collection including negatives, transparencies, slides, prints, lantern
slides, glass plate negatives, and film footage. In conjunction
with the Director for Collections, the archivist will set and implement
priorities and formulate collection policies. Duties include
providing information and access to the collection to campus researchers
and students and visiting researchers, responding to written requests for
information, promoting research use of the collection, developing grant
proposals, cataloguing new accessions and supervising staff, interns and
volunteers. The archivist will manage a multi-year project cataloguing
the entire collection into a collections management database and
producing digital images of the entire archive. Minimum salary:
$44,000.00 per annum.
The position requires an M.L.S. or equivalent degree in photographic
archives management and a background in anthropology, with an M.A. in
anthropology preferred; three to five years experience in a museum or
anthropology-based photographic archive or the equivalent; knowledge of
museum and archival accessioning and cataloging procedures, especially
using electronic methods; significant experience with collections
management databases including use in retroactive electronic cataloging,
and proven ability to manage the design and implementation of a
retroactive cataloguing project; familiarity with digital imaging,
including but not limited to scanning methods, watermarking, and other
means of intellectual property control, quality assessment, file formats
and archival procedures for digital images; knowledge of copyright laws
and practice; excellent organizational skills; grant writing experience;
experience with sensitive issues of cultural patrimony and intellectual
property.
Please send cover letter, resume,
and the names of three references to: Photo Archivist Search, Peabody
Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, 11 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge,
MA 02138.